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Down a purpose-built outsize distorted staircase-like structure, you ride inside a large slinky to whose coils you are elastically tethered at wrist and ankle.
If you cannot use your limbs to vary the course of the slinky, you will not avoid the surreal obstacles in your path.
The paper-like
skin and internal lighting create a Japanese-lantern effect entirely extraneous to the therapeutic purpose of the exercise which is, of course, to provide a treatment for ankylosing spondylitis.
Equally extraneous are the backdrops taken from lurid, low-budget films.
You have to keep flexing your backbone
http://en.wikipedia...ylosing_spondylitis
or it turns into a brittle bamboo-like thing. [pertinax, Apr 20 2008]
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I don't know about you, but Slinkys bend in ways I simply do not. |
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Dangerous, probably impossible, yet inspired. |
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My tendons were cryng just reading this, but I love the visual. |
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//Slinkys bend in ways I simply do not.// |
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With a big enough slinky, and long enough elastics, you wouldn't *have* to bend at all, but could just be a straight line not quite tangential to the inner curve of the slinky. Of course that would spoil it, so the slinky would probably be slightly smaller than this. |
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"Slinkynastics - they're slinkytastic!" |
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This is the first I have heard of "treatment" of auto-immune deseases, of this type, that does not involve DMD's. No plasmoquine, methotrexate, solazapyrin? No cortizone, cortizone epidurals? My God, you are a veritable "Willow-back" in comparison. |
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This is a treatment of symptoms, not the desease. Which I applaud. Laughter is the best medicine. |
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